The flow diagram presenting the results for this supply chain, produced as part of the SOCLE project, offers a complete view of how material circulates through the chain, from supplies to final outlets. It is a Sankey-type representation: the thickness of the arrows is proportional to the quantities (in kilotonnes of live weight, kt), making it possible to grasp at a glance the relative weight of each segment and each species.
This diagram aims to represent the supply chain as a whole at the most detailed level possible. Although some data could be mobilised at a finer level of detail than the one shown, it did not make it possible to guarantee complete data all along the chain: such data is therefore shown in aggregated form on the diagram.
The diagram represents all the material flows within the poultry meat supply chain in France, from supply sources to the various final uses, for the 3 years studied in the SOCLE project: 2015, 2019 and 2023 (select the desired year in the timeline below the diagram).
Supplies include the finished animals from national farming — distinguished by species (chicken, other Gallus, turkey, duck, guinea fowl, goose) — supplemented by imports and trade in live animals. These flows feed the slaughtering and cutting circuits, carried out separately for each species. The intermediate market highlights the slaughtering and cutting operations and the separation between meat intended for human consumption, edible offal, foie gras (waterfowl) and co-products (material destined for rendering). Part of these co-products is directed to thermal treatments before recovery as animal proteins and fats, meals and greases. The outlets include human food (at-home consumption, out-of-home catering, agri-food industries), animal feed (petfood, feed for productive livestock, aquaculture), non-food or industrial uses (energy, fertilisation, other industries), as well as exports.
The thickness of the flows makes it possible to identify the main recovery routes, the predominance of chicken, the structuring role of co-products in the balance of the chain, and the diversity of the final uses of the material produced by poultry farming.
